Battle damage from a SA-7 Grail surface-to-air-missile on a F/A-18D Hornet of U.S. Marine Corps squadron VMFA(AW)-121. The aircraft was hit on the first day of the 1990/91 Gulf War, on 17 January 1991.
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U.S. Navy "Approach" magazine November/December 2005 issue [1]
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